Book Boilerplate

Overview

Using this Repo you'll be able to create a new gitbook and host it in heroku.

Setup

• Install the applibook cli globally

$ npm install -g applibook

Create a new book

• create a new directory and cd to it
• run applibook create
• Process may take a minute or two
• Publish the newly created repo to github

Write the book

Your book content is located ad the book folder. TO find out more on how to arrange your content read the following:

• Directory Structure
• Pages and Summary

See book locally

You can view your compiled book by running.

$ yarn run serve

Changes you do in the book content will show app immediately in the book

Test Authorization locally

If you want to test how Applicaster Accounts authorization works add a .env file to the root of the repo and add the environment variables listed bellow - environment variables e.g.:

PORT=4001
USE_ACCOUNTS_AUTH=1
CLIENT_ID=<CLIENT_ID_TAKEN_FROM_APPLICATER_ACCOUNTS>
CLIENT_SECRET=<CLIENT_SECRET_TAKEN_FROM_APPLICATER_ACCOUNTS>

Then run

$ yarn build
$ yarn start

Publish to Heroku

• Login to Heroku using Applicaster Account
• Create a new Heroku app and give it a name

NOTE: If you want to make your book to have restricted login make sure your create the environment variables before proceeding Restricting book access

• Go to the app Deploy tab and choose Github as the deployment method
• Search and connect your created repo
• Click on the Enable Automatic Deploys to enable book recompile when the repo's content is updated.
• Click on the Deploy Brunch to deploy the book for the first time.

Restrict book access

In case you want to restrict access of the book to only Applicaster logged in members do the following

Create a new Application in Applicaster accounts

• Go to - https://accounts.applicaster.com/admin/applications
• Create a new Application and for the Redirect uri put your heroku app URL with the following suffix /bell/door e.g. if your App heroku url is https://book-b1.herokuapp.com/ so set https://book-b1.herokuapp.com/bell/door as the Redirect uri

Add the following environment variables

• USE_ACCOUNTS_AUTH - Should the book be restricted using Applicaster Accounts oAuth (0 - no restriected, 1 -restricted)

• CLIENT_ID - Applicaster Accounts CLIENT_ID

• CLIENT_SECRET - Applicaster Accounts CLIENT_SECRET